Heaney, to his credit, took responsibility for this poem, and turned it into something that regular people would want to read, and enjoy.
But as science begins to corroborate intuition, the public is reassessing where credit and responsibility lie for character traits that may be in part genetically preordained.
Last authors are frequently the heads of laboratories, who may or may not be the intellectual driving force behind a paper but who, by putting their names to it, take both credit and responsibility for what is in it.
It the latest sign that the Treasury is keeping a very close eye on universal credit, the responsibility of work and pensions secretary, Iain Duncan Smith, after it was criticised by the National Audit Office for its "weak management, ineffective control and poor governance".
With credit comes responsibility: Who is to blame if something's wrong?
They exist in multiple, incremental versions; multi-author, i.e., they enable the collaboration and contribution of a number of interested and expert authors on a specific MSKO, with different levels of "ownership" and control of the MSKO, and each able to claim credit and responsibility for the contribution; and.
Evolution of a publication is not conceived as a novel publication to be created, evaluated, and published anew (with significant loss of time for the community), but rather as the evolution of an existing MSKO, possibly by different authors, with each able to claim credit and responsibility for their contribution.
Lissitzky and the entire group chose to share credit and responsibility for the works produced within the group, signing most pieces with a black square.
The results of this study should raise awareness among the scientific community about the importance of ensuring appropriate authorship credit and responsibility.
